Stamford Youth Soccer Roundup

Published 6:02 pm, Tuesday, September 25, 2012

For the first round of the State Cup on Saturday, the U12 Boys Hurricanes team had a strong performance against Fairfield White team to move to the next round.

It ended up being a nail-biting match as it went into overtime.

The Hurricanes started very strong. In the 10th minute, Orlando Coronado got away and scored after a pass from Redwanur Rashid. In the 18th minute, Julien Matrullo found Coronado again open. Coronado scored his second goal after following his shot that bounced on the post after going past Fairfield goalie.

Stamford's defense with goalie Dean Pigott and Luke Nascimento, Alexis Apostolidos and David Garcia was very solid and supported by a solid group in midfield with Lucas Goldfluss, Joey Price, William Martinez and Santiago Pelaez. Against the momentum of the match, Fairfield White scored with a header on a corner before the first half.

The Huriccanes continued their dominating play in the second half and created multiple goal opportunities. In the 45th minute , William Martinez in the penalty zone received the ball with his back to the goal and turned around to kick a shot out of reach of Fairfield's goalie. Stamford was up 3-1 at that point of the match.

However, Fairfield didn't give up and stepped up the offense to score on a get-away that beat Nathan Links, who was then the Stamford's goalie.

Five minutes from the end of regular time, Fairfield scored another goal on a nice center to tie the match.

In extra time, the Hurricanes had no intention to let the suspense continue long and played very aggressively.

Three minutes in, Lucas Glodfluss made a pass to Coronado who kicked a beauty above the goalie's reach. Not done yet, Coronado escaped two defenders a few minutes later to beat the goalie again for his fourth goal of the day.

Finally, Links -- who had left the goal to play the field -- got an open space outside the penalty zone and hit a beautiful curved kick that went in the right upper corner of the goal for a 6-3 win for the Hurricanes.